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1 Guldengroschen - Frederick III
| Issuer | Saxony (Ernestinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1512 |
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| Reference(s) | Keil/Kahnt#70.2, Schnee#37 |
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| Obverse lettering | FRID` ° DVX · SAX` ELECT` · IMPER QVE · LOCVM : TEN E`S : GENERA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The guldengroschen — effectively a silver coin struck to match the value of a Rhenish gold gulden — was a Saxon innovation, and the Ernestinian branch of the Wettin dynasty was among its earliest issuers. Frederick III ("the Wise") is better remembered as the elector who sheltered Martin Luther at the Wartburg, but in 1512 that was still a decade away. His monetary ambitions were equally significant: the large silver coins struck under his authority helped establish the denomination that would evolve, through Joachimstal and beyond, into the thaler standard dominating European commerce for centuries.
The Schnee 37 attribution places this among a closely documented sequence. Weight tolerance on these early guldengroschen varied noticeably across the series.